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HomeGain inducts 10 real estate agent members into its elite commissions based award clubs; Total club membership reaches 1,103, each member earning at least $50,000 in commissions from HomeGain’s Agent Evaluator Program

Emeryville, CA – December 4, 2012 – HomeGain, a leading website that connects REALTORS® with home buyers and sellers, today announced that it is inducting 10 members into its commission based award clubs. The total number of award clubs members now stands at 1,103.

“We are delighted to induct 10 members into our AgentEvaluator Awards Clubs,” stated Louis Cammarosano, General Manager at HomeGain. “We are proud of their accomplishments and wish them further success.”

Since the third quarter of 2012, HomeGain has inducted the following award club members:

One new HomeGain Diamond Club member (totaling 32 members who have earned $500,000 or more)

Two new HomeGain Platinum Club members (totaling 415 members who have earned $125,000 or more)

Five new HomeGain Gold Club members (totaling 348 members who have earned $75,000 or more)

Two new HomeGain Silver Club members (totaling 306 members who have earned $50,000 or more)

There are currently two members in the HomeGain Million Dollar Club.

AgentEvaluator® is an online marketing program for real estate agents who are looking to connect with home buyers and sellers.

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December 3rd, 2012 under AgentEvaluator

HomeGain partners with RealtyTrac , Point2Agent, New Home Source, and Apartments.com to share over two million listings of foreclosures, existing homes, new homes for sale, and apartment rentals; HomeGain also unveils redesigned home page

HomeGain, a leading provider of online marketing solutions that connects real estate agents and brokers with home buyers and sellers, recently announced new partnerships that increase the number of foreclosures, existing homes, new homes, and apartment rental listings to over two million.

HomeGain’s partnership with RealtyTrac provides over 1.4 million foreclosure listings and pre-foreclosure homes from over 2,200 counties in the United States. Point2Agent provides over 550,000 existing homes for sale listings nationwide. New Home Source brings new home listings from over 8,000 communities from over 500 home builders. Apartments.com, the leading online apartment resource, offers rental information from apartment properties across the country.

Home buyers and sellers who visit HomeGain.com will also notice a redesigned and more user-friendly home page. The three-column layout remains intact but has a fresh new look. HomeGain’s redesigned home page now makes it easier for visitors to search homes for sale. A navigation menu has been added to the top of the page, along with a new search form that provides access to over two million real estate listings. Users can access HomeGain’s find and compare real estate agents product and home values tool from the home page.

“A redesign of the HomeGain home page was long overdue, especially as we have added an enormous amount of listings and other real estate content over the past year”, said Louis Cammarosano HomeGain’s General Manager. Kudos to our product development and technology teams for implementing the sleek design which enables users to easily search our two million listings and other real estate content.”

A clean, organized home does more to sell your home compared to any other low-cost selling strategy. This is according to a 2011 survey conducted here at HomeGain, which questioned over 600 real estate agents across the U.S. and found 99 percent of them recommend thoroughly cleaning and decluttering the home before putting it up for sale. It also showed a return on investment (ROI) of 586-percent simply by cleaning and decluttering.

These survey results make sense. Would you buy a home that was cluttered and messy? The answer is probably a defiant “No!” First impressions are critical when selling a home, so it’s extremely important to make your home look its best during an open house or showing.

Decluttering

The first step is to declutter the home. In most cases, the more stuff you get rid of, the better. A minimalist approach will appeal to the highest percentage of potential buyers.

So, start by clearing out obvious trash, junk and boxes filled with stored items. Either temporarily store these items in a storage unit or family member’s home, or trash the items if it’s something you never use or need.

I have been an avid HomeGain user since I started in Real Estate and was thinking recently about why I use them and how other real estate agents gain their leads. Following this train of thought I came to the conclusion that everyone pays for leads one way or the other. Some do it through Homegain while others may “farm an area” sending out post cards, flyers, and other forms of “touch” to an area. Some choose to pay for their leads by advertising in the local newspaper or on a billboard. In the end we all pay for leads!

The question is: What is the most cost efficient method to garner your leads?

We choose to use a couple of the HomeGain products for leads. One sends potential customers directly to our idx to search for homes in Columbus, GA where we capture them in our website backend. Another product gives us a chance to compete for buyers and sellers through the HomeGain system. Either way the goal is to gain clients for our business. We have found both of these methods to be very effective and for that reason have continued to use both products for about 8 years now.

Home sellers are more than twice as likely to sell their homes using a REALTOR® than going FSBO. Seventy-three percent of homeowners using a HomeGain agent had their homes sold vs. 62 percent who used a non-HomeGain agent and vs. 30 percent who went FSBO.

HomeGain surveyed over 400 homeowners asking whether they used a REALTOR® to sell their home or whether they attempted to sell it themselves. Seventy-nine percent said they used a REALTOR® to sell their home and 21 percent said they tried to sell their home on their own.

Sixty-six percent of home owners that used a REALTOR® to sell their home were successful vs. 30 percent of FSBO’s, reflecting a 120 percent higher closing rate for those home sellers using a REALTOR®.

Eighty-five percent of homeowners that used a REALTOR® to try and sell their home said they would use a REALTOR® again for their real estate needs.

Eighty-nine percent of home owners who sold their home using a REALTOR® said they would use a REALTOR® again.

HomeGain inducts 15 new real estate agent members into its elite commissions based award clubs; Total club membership reaches 1,080, each member earning at least $50,000 in commissions from HomeGain’s Agent Evaluator Program

Emeryville, CA – June 27, 2012 – HomeGain, a leading website that connects REALTORS® with home buyers and sellers, today announced that it is inducting 15 new members into its commission based award clubs. The total number of award clubs members now stands at 1,080.

“We are delighted that over 1,000 HomeGain members have been inducted into our AgentEvaulator Awards Clubs,” stated Louis Cammarosano, General Manager at HomeGain. “We would like to congratulate them all and welcome the fifteen latest entrants to these exclusive clubs that require members to earn at least $50,000 in commissions from using HomeGain’s Agent Evaluator program.”

Since the first quarter of 2012, HomeGain has inducted the following real estate club members:

One new HomeGain Diamond Club member (totaling 30 members who have earned $500,000 or more)

Two new HomeGain Platinum Club members (totaling 410 members who have earned $125,000 or more)

Eight new HomeGain Gold Club members (totaling 337 members who have earned $75,000 or more)

Four new HomeGain Silver Club members (totaling 301 members who have earned $50,000 or more)

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